Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. A Journal. To humbler strains, ye Nine, descend, And ...
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Description of the Ball, with an Episode on Beau ...
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. The Birth of Fashion, a Specimen of a modern ...
Sure there are Charms by Heav'n assign'dTo modish Life alone,A Grace, an Air, a Taste refin'd,To vulgar Souls unknown.Nature, my ...
Not always o'er the meads and hills, From low'ring clouds, the rain distils, Nor storms with endless uproar sweep The ...
Miss Prudence B---n---r---d to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. Miss Prudence B---n---r---d informs Lady Betty that she has ...
From wealth, from honours, and from courts remov'd, I've kept the silent path my genius lov'd, And pitied those whom ...
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